Common lesson from Gautama Buddah and Hazrat Ali.

In today's days and age our quest to satisfy our physical and social needs has become such that we have completely forgotten that within us resides a divinely created soul which like the body and like the mind has its own needs as well.life is nothing less than a rat race,which is not a problem per se but the fact is that being in the rat race still makes you a rat. The great thinker from Iran Professor Shaeed Mutaharri used to say that when you eat food you satisfy your body and when you feed others you satisfy your soul. So just like the body needs nourishment so does your soul.

Humanity has produced some great personalities who left behind such amazing teachings which once applied can serve as not only an ointment for the sick soul but also help the soul elevate its self from the plain of vain desires and needs.

2 such great personalities were Guatam Buddah and Hazrat Ali son of Abu Talib,both these personalities left behind a huge corpus of knowledge trough mankind could benefit for ages to come.

So here are a few common lesson from both these great humans,but before that a small biography of both of them.

Imp note- You do not have to belong to any religion or sect to follow these lesson,the only condition is that you must be human and have a longing to be a Human.Hazrat Ali himself used to say

"Do not see who is speaking,rather see what he is speaking".

Guatam Buddah-

Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. A native of the ancient Shakya republic in the Himalayan foothills, Gautama Buddha taught primarily in northeastern India.

Buddha means "awakened one" or "the enlightened one."

The times of Gautama's birth and death are uncertain: most historians in the early 20th century dated his lifetime as circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE, but more recent opinion dates his death to between 486 and 483 BCE or, according to some, between 411 and 400 BCE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wi- ki/Gautama_Buddha

Hazrat Ali Son of Abu Talib.

He was born in the 600 CE in the holy city of Mecca.One distinctive aspect of his birth which has been recorded by every historian is that he was born inside the Holy Kabaa,the place of worship which was originally built by the Prophet Ibrahim and his son Prophet Ismael.

Hazrat Ali was tutored by the final prophet of God,the prophet Mohammed(s) who was also the cousin of Ali and the later become his father in law as well.The prophet had famously said about Ali

"I am the city if knowledge and this Ali is its gate".

Both these personalities lived more than 1000 years ago and within themselves have a difference of more than 1000 years.

IDLENESS

One of the greatest sickness which arrest the growth of humanity is the act of being idle,or rather being good for nothing. Today many a societies have either perished or lost their identity into oblivion because the members of the that society have chosen laziness and idleness and have turned away from performing that which is obligatory on them.

In the eyes of Buddah an idle person is no more than a dead person as the soul strives in effort and work,he says

"To be idle is the short road to death".

I remember when my father had been trough a life threatening operation and after he came back home,I visited my local scholar. The scholar asked me up front that if i wanted my father to live longer,I said hell yes,i want him to have a very long life. At that time the teacher told me something very important,he said,

If you want your father to live long,do not retire him and make him sit at home. Rather let me be a part of every day life as idleness will kill him.

These words were like a revelation to me and by the grace of god within a couple of days my father resumed work and even today he is working much harder than I am. The fact that I am writing this is a proof that he is working himself out,which gives me the opportunity to remove time for other social and spiritual activities...long live the father.

So try and never be in state of doing nothing,and apply this principle with others as well. Do whatever but keep yourself busy so when the angel of death comes knocking he would know that you still have loads on your plate.

A wise man once said

"Work is not disgrace;it is idleness which is disgrace."

Ok another problem of being idle is that when you don't have something constructive to do,you would end up doing something destructive. How many times have you heard your grandmother telling you that ,an empty mind is the devils workshop. Andrew Matthews uses to say that our mind does not have a reverse gear ,it has to keep moving forward.

Hazrat Ali warns us by saying

"From idleness comes inclination towards vain desires."

Today if you look around you will see many a crimes are committed by those who have nothing to do in life,your mind like a shiny read Porshe,and you must be in control all the time. As soon as you loose control and go into the slumber of idleness and laziness then you are bound to meet destruction.